Do not buy the Competition Pro Retro Joystick by Individual Computers

[NovaCoder]

I use a wireless PS2 controller with my 1200, works great

[haywirepc]

Mine broke too. I now use a retrro nes usb controller. (on my dedicated emulation pc) Works great and once you remap the buttons works fine.

I think the feel of the competition pro joysticks is absolutely horrid. Feels so stiff! Nothing like amiga controllers of the old days, but maybe its just me, since they seem to be quite popular...

Steven

[bbond007]

I use a wireless PS2 controller with my 1200, works great

I was given some wireless NES gamepads. I wonder if there exists a converter to go from NES to Commodore/Atari.

[RobertB]

I wonder if there exists a converter to go from NES to Commodore/Atari.

It's here at

http://www.64hdd.com/64jpx/64jpx.html#

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[HotRod]

Mine broke too. I now use a retrro nes usb controller. (on my dedicated emulation pc) Works great and once you remap the buttons works fine.

I think the feel of the competition pro joysticks is absolutely horrid. Feels so stiff! Nothing like amiga controllers of the old days, but maybe its just me, since they seem to be quite popular...

Steven

No it's not just you, they are horrible! Really stiff, my thumb hurts after a short while of playing. The Tac-2 was the joystick that I loved back then and still do. That's how a joystick should be IMO. The other joystick that I liked was the joystick from the Atari 2600, really good. Only way seems to be to build an adapter or buy one and use one of your old joysticks if you're lucky to have one. The Tac-2 is the only one that I'm interested in. I got three of these Competition Pro and they suck ass! It's better than nothing but far from good. Also I got a PS2-like joypad but playing Amiga-games with that isn't right, it doesn't have the right feal.